Fall colors certainly put on a spectacular show throughout Maine this year! This week’s featured photo is by NRCM member Barbara Heap of Readfield, Maine. Barbara shares her vibrant photo of people flyfishing on the Dead River in Somerset County during the Flagstaff Lake dam release. Do you have some fall foliage photos (say that 10 Read More
A Conversation with Michael Vermette, Allagash Visiting Artist
This is the second in a two-part blog series that explores the intersection of art and environmental protection with interviews featuring the 2020 visiting artists for Baxter State Park and the Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Read our interview with Baxter visiting artist Jill Osgood. This year the Bureau of Parks and Lands introduced a new artist Read More
My Maine This Week: Jym St. Pierre
Jym St. Pierre of Brunswick, Maine, has been an NRCM member for nearly 50 years. He has been going to Baxter State Park even longer. His photo shows NRCM’s former Forests & Wildlife Program Director Cathy Johnson paddling with friends on Katahdin Lake toward Maine’s greatest mountain last month.
My Maine This Week: Isabelle Orozco
Welcome to our newest My Maine This Week photographer, Isabelle Orozco of Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and Arlington, Virginia. Isabelle writes, “I took this photo at Mt. Megunticook in the Camden Hills State Park on July 18th, 2020. The image shows the red squirrel, which minutes before was seemingly dancing with a partner, squittering hither and thither Read More
Timeless Lessons from a Native Garden in Uncertain Times
When we purchased our home, the first thing we did was designate a portion of our yard that we would allow to grow wild with native plants. Like most offices, the Natural Resources Council of Maine started working remotely as a result of the pandemic. Because of that, I’ve had the opportunity to pay closer attention to the changes in my native wildflower garden. There are a Read More
We All Need Clean Air and a Healthy Climate
As I sat down to write this post, I had other topics in mind, public lands, trail networks, or adventuring locally this summer, all things that I have more of a background in. Yet looking out at a sunset dimmed by the haze of the wildfires raging on the West Coast, it’s hard to not Read More
Solar Projects Will Advance a Clean, Affordable Energy Future for Maine
In late September 2020 the Maine Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved 17 Maine-based renewable energy projects that are expected to generate more than 535 MW of electricity, support 450 construction and 30 permanent jobs, and reduce the state’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 500,000 tons per year. The PUC’s action was the largest procurement Read More
Celebrating 30 Years of the Caribou-Speckled Wilderness
September 28, 2020, is the 30th anniversary of the Maine Wilderness Act, which was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush and designated 12,000 acres of the White Mountain National Forest as the Caribou-Speckled Mountain Wilderness. The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) is proud of the role we played decades ago in Read More
My Maine This Week: Ted Anderson
“I’ve been hoping to see a Sandhill Crane (a species I’d never seen) for years now, but have never timed it right. One recent afternoon I was able to photograph a pair, with a juvenile, near the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village fields in New Gloucester. The sight and calls of these birds had me humming Read More
